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And as soon as you start having internal charging, you discover that a
significant part of the work of the company is done undocumented on a
"best effort" basis that no-one knew about. This is particularly
"amusing" when you outsource that function and either that work no
longer gets done, or the outsourcer starts to charge for it.

That was a famous bit about the BBC record library. It cost more to
hire an LP from them than it cost to buy - assuming still current. So
some producers sent an assistant out to buy the record instead. But
I'll bet didn't include how much sending that person cost.

During my first job, one of the engineers decided that it cost more in
his time to sharpen a pencil, than throwing it away and getting a new
one from the stationary cupboard

I don't think anybody was under any illusions that this was economically
the best thing to do, but it was funny anyway

the other pencil story was when some company decided that people were using
too many pencils and you would only get a new one on presntation of a stub.
Suddenly pencil use increased enormously - everybody cut up their newly
issued pencil into small pieces nad then acquired 6 or 7 new ones.

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